EA Brings Back Official Battlefield 3 Servers
Remember the mysterious disappearance of the official DICE servers for Battlefield 3? Well, I guess if you’re looking at it from their perspective, none of the servers actually disappeared. Instead, they were simply repurposed. Regardless of perspective, the lack of official servers sucks for console players. Thankfully we have an update from EA.
According to an EA representative “You should see DICE-hosted servers up today. I do not have the exact percentage or number of servers, but we’ll continue to monitor this to make sure all players are having the best possible gameplay experience.” And it does indeed look like a large number of official servers are indeed online.
What bothers me about this is that they didn’t keep any official servers around in the first place. The servers that people are renting are being paid for, in addition to the money they put into the game. Essentially, they were punishing non-paying players for trying to play on the same servers they’d always used. Shame on you EA. That’s just a dirty grab for money right there. At least they fixed it when called out.
